Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Well I Never!

Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

WWII Family Link

All the Pahlka family in the U.S. comes from a Charles and Elizibeth Pahlka and their eight sons. During WWII, a David Pahlka from Portland, Oregon was shot down in the Pacific. All ships were called out to search for the possible survivors. H.I. Pahlka, from Oklahoma was given a Navy cap with the name Pahlka written in it. It wasn't his but the downed pilot who still hadn't been found. Years later when in S.F. at a small reunion, H.I.

Memorial Cactus

On January 3, 1995, while working as a cab driver in Las Vegas, the terrorist Terry Nichols hired my cab and he informed me of the plot. I didn't believe him and although the authorities were informed by others, the tragedy still happened. In April 1995, I planted a beavertail cactus and dedicated it as a memorial for the victims, as they plant a tree in Israel for the Holocaust victims. Said a brief prayer, and thought this would be all their was to it. April 13, 1995 was the first blossoming.

New Girlfriend

My new girlfriend's name is the same as my mother's second Christian name, which happens to be my laptop password. And her birthday is the same as my flatmate's.

In tune with the circumstances.

I knocked over a drinking glass on the kitchen worktop and it shattered. As I was sweeping up the fragments that had fallen onto the floor, the song played on the radio was The Eurythmics singing 'Walking on Broken Glass'!

LDR

I meet someone whose name is similar to my fiance, a us army in afghan now. This someone is married and his wife's name is similar to my name. Another I met someone who worked in the place where my fiance father is from. Its been more than 2 wks now that my fiance and I have no communication. he once told me that there may not have internet connection in the place and that.. power isnt reliable... i miss him a lot.. :) what do you think?

Free Speech coincidence

Today I was given a 2 week suspension on Facebook which stops me from posting materials. I was raging about my free speech rights and wrote back to them to say so. At the same time I was going through my email archive looking for certain mails that I needed,I clicked over the the next page of mails and there was one called "Free Speech" which I had sent to the Metro in Oct 2012 about the right to say what one wants on social media sites such as Facebook. Two instances of the same issue separated by 7months coinciding within the same few seconds.

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Whenever I worked anywhere in an agency, I always bumped into C---we always shared similar experiences and beliefs-- I was told by a clairvoyant to meet X many miles away.Of course I would not contact somebody I did not know--- I met her many years later---having forgotten the message-- We believe conicidence is a higher spiritual awareness -- like dreaming about people you have never even met-- I looked for coincidences in life from about age 6, to lead me to my decision--- but was unsure why I did so--- Whenever I suggest anything, somebody writes about it or it is on the news the ne

Media Coincidence.

I have regular coincidences linked to media. Usually with music, but also with news stories, television and film. These coincidences have happened so regularly that I have decided to look into the phenomenon a little more. I realize that coincidence can be explained methodically with mathematical analysis, but what puzzles me is the how coincidence can present itself so regularly, and sometimes, as I have experienced, in a pattern in a compact time frame. Here are a couple of examples of coincidences which come to mind from the last 2 weeks. Last night I chose a DVD at random.

Same class same birth date

My friend John, with whom I was good friends and met in high school chemistry class shares the same birthday as me: 08/12/1993. He was born at 9:30AM, I was born at 9:30 PM. We were both born at Northwest Community Hospital in Chicago.

5:05 - rise and shine

Having discovered this website yesterday, I read about a dozen stories including "11.11 time display", which reminded me of an incident in my own life... Last summer I developed a bout of insomnia that lasted well into the autumn - it was a symptom (and subsequently an aggravating factor) of a sort of mid-life hiccough. I could get to sleep ok, but routinely woke in the night, and struggled to doze off again.

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